Educational eBooks

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griff......

Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspo......

Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were ......

This edited volume provides novice teachers with a practical guide to help them transition from teacher education students to independent, reflective and autonomous classroom teachers.
Editor: Schwarzer, David
Editor: Grinberg, Jamie
Publisher: ......

This volume serves as a guide for teaching history with sci-fi films. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, it provides an overview of significant issues and related films, a tutorial in using film in historical methodology, user guides......

Intended for college students in the performing arts—as well as early- and mid-career professionals—this guide offers strategies that help actors handle audition nerves, prepare for interviews, market themselves—everything they n......

The Cold War ended twenty-five years ago, but tensions between Russia and the West are as bad as ever. What happened?
Author: Conradi, Peter
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Who Lost Russia?
Pages: 00400 (Enc......

Through the 150-year saga of one family, this book traces the remarkable religious evolution of the world’s most populous nation. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of Christianity in China. Five generations o......

Tracing the history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States, Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries’ efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, cl......

Regarded as the authoritative reference and text, this handbook presents the most effective, widely studied approaches to couple therapy. The distinguished coeditors bring together other leading experts, most of whom developed the approaches they ......

How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Lifes Misfortunes
Dr. Joel Pariss Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry takes a much-needed look at the dangerous epidemic of unnecessary or incorrect treatments. The last 30......

An Introduction, Third Edition (Power Electronics and Applications Series).
The search for renewable energy and smart grids, the societal impact of blackouts, and the environmental impact of generating electricity, along with the new ABET crite......

Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology).
This volume focuses on cytological, biochemical, and molecular biological methods to identify and examine the function of each nuclear body, with an emphasis on the analysis of long non-codi......

This is chapter 1 of our memes in dreams collection. We have created over 200 unique, different memes which focus on self-development or self-improvement. Please join our collection created into a book titled 8 Habits towards leadership. Join us a......

This eBook is meant to provide daily inspiration for your relationship. There are 45 tips to put the spark back in your relationship. Each tip comes with a task that you can do to implement the new ideas. Use one tip a day and you will have over a......

Turn to Medical Microbiology, 8th Edition for a thorough, clinically relevant understanding of microbes and their diseases. This succinct, easy-to-use text presents the fundamentals of microbiology and immunology in a clearly written, engaging man......

The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded. It is required reading for young engineers and a convenient reference for experienced engineers. This is the essential book for civil engineers in land ......

For decades, the determination of bone maturity has relied on a visual evaluation of skeletal development in the hand and wrist, most commonly using the Greulich and Pyle atlas. The Gilsanz and Ratib digital atlas takes advantage of the advent of ......

For centuries, the lighthouse has stood as a beacon of guidance for mariners at sea. More than an aid to navigation, the lighthouse symbolizes safety, permanence, reliability, and the comforts of the familiar. For this reason, we have chosen to il......